On 09/11/2017 07:28 PM, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote: > Was Jerry Pournelle the FIRST to write a PUBLISHED NOVEL on a > MICROCOMPUTER? Yikes! Talk about SHOUTING. As a historian is it worth > the aggravation to please everyone? Does revisionism take away the > honour(Cdn. Here!) Jerry Pournelle rightly deserves for pioneering > work in our beloved computing genre? Are the passing of our early > microcomputing pioneers > leaving a hole in our history?
Murray, I thought I'd mentioned that the first published novel known to have been prepared on a word processor (an IBM MT/ST) was Len Deighton's Bomber, published in 1970. So, likely the prep was 1969. So claims Wikipedia. --Chuck
